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04/28/2026 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Guest Host Dale Cooper, Bryan Hughes, Brad McElhinny · The Dave Allen Show

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Speaker 3: It's a great day to be alive.
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Speaker 2: we want to talk a little bit about the regatta
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Speaker 2: that's coming up and big times, big times man.
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Speaker 5: You know this is we're excited. You know we got
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Speaker 5: quote unquote lucky. We were actually supposed to be the
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Speaker 5: regatta one year earlier. Oh yeah, right, but you know
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Speaker 5: the COVID stuff had right right, I mean in a
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Speaker 5: flood actually delayed our announcement and that is why and
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Speaker 5: then next thing, you know, the COVID stuff happened, and
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Speaker 5: so we had to move on. So you know, it
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Speaker 5: was weird how things worked out because that put us
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Speaker 5: now for the five year anniversary on the two hundred
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Speaker 5: and fiftieth birthday of America, and ID is going to
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Speaker 5: be a big show. I mean, this is by the way,
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Speaker 5: this is moved from working draft to actual to actual.
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Speaker 6: I see it as draft across it. This is real.
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Speaker 3: Now I did get an emailed to me. I just
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Speaker 3: looked at the wrong account.
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Speaker 5: So this is but this is really we're really excited
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Speaker 5: about this. You know, we've been talking to a lot
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Speaker 5: of our sponsors and this was this was for when
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Speaker 5: I met with with within COVID now five years ago.
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Speaker 5: This was the mark that I said, we're gonna make
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Speaker 5: it five year mark, but I just need some help
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Speaker 5: and they I wasn't. Those folks over there trusted trusted us,
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Speaker 5: They trusted me, and that was that was really exciting.
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Speaker 5: Once we got that, we knew we're going to take off.
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Speaker 2: I've been a business owner in the past, and is
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Speaker 2: the festivals and things like that kind of live along
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Speaker 2: that same path. Like five years is really that benchmark
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Speaker 2: for businesses too, like if you can stay open for
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Speaker 2: five years, you're you're paying your bills, you're you're making
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Speaker 2: a profit. Things like that, it usually means you can
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Speaker 2: stick around for a while.
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 5: The mayor had said, we need to get three in
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Speaker 5: and after we get three we'll know what we got
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Speaker 5: to fix big time if we need to fix anything.
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Speaker 5: And we fix every things every year, but we knew
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Speaker 5: if we have to five that would take it to
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Speaker 5: the next level. And and we just happened to be
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Speaker 5: lucky enough that is on America's two hundred fifty birthday.
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Speaker 3: There's gonna be a lot.
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Speaker 5: Of celebrations, but you know we are going to have
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Speaker 5: more celebrations around the city.
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Speaker 3: The fireworks show, it's great. This fireworks show.
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Speaker 5: I have to absolutely thank the anonymous donors who stepped
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Speaker 5: up and they put it through the Canal Valley Foundation.
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Speaker 5: They helped us out to anonymize everything just because they said,
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Speaker 5: we want to have a very nice firework show.
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Speaker 6: Wow.
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Speaker 3: And he is going to be huge.
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Speaker 5: Three firing locations, one at Magic Island, one directly across
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Speaker 5: from had Adam of Corcorle Avenue, and then the other
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Speaker 5: one out of Arge in the middle of the Canal
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Speaker 5: River right in front of the state Capitol.
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Speaker 6: It's gonna be huge.
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Speaker 5: Listen, anybody who has who has just an inkling of
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Speaker 5: photographic you know, work or what the adumption right right,
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Speaker 5: sign up, get ready. This is going to be something
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Speaker 5: you'll never be able to capture again in your lifetime
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Speaker 5: most likely. But it's gonna be West Virginia's largest firework
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Speaker 5: show ever produced.
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Speaker 2: You know, I was just a couple of weeks ago
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Speaker 2: I got the big press release. You know, the city
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Speaker 2: of Pittsburgh does their their summer concert series and they
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Speaker 2: have several different locations where they launch shows about and
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Speaker 2: the good artists that were coming in there. I was like, man,
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Speaker 2: that's the you know, if you were wanting to go
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Speaker 2: see some some shows, that's a pretty good summer concert
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Speaker 2: series at Wittsburg has going on.
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Speaker 5: I had somebody who said, this looks like almost it
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Speaker 5: could be a regott On.
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Speaker 2: Well now, and what made me bring that up is, frankly, frankly, Pittsburgh,
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Speaker 2: I REGTDA lineup is looking pretty darn strong. Night number one, well,
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Speaker 2: let's just we'll just open up with Night number one
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Speaker 2: could be the closing night on just about any other
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Speaker 2: night just absolutely incredible.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely could be.
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Speaker 5: And the what we've had to do every year is
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Speaker 5: we get artists that are just traveling through I got
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Speaker 5: to get from Let's say they're gonna get from Cincy
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Speaker 5: down to Jacksonville, Ford.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's not a direct round. I think you'll probably south.
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Speaker 5: But if they come through Charleston and make a little
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Speaker 5: money on the way, have a concert, and still make
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Speaker 5: it to Jacksonville, Ford, So we get them in transit.
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Speaker 5: But this year with Brett Michaels on Saturday and why
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Speaker 5: Noona and Melissa Etheridge on tour on Thursday, we get
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Speaker 5: them actually on their tours like legitimate. So I think
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Speaker 5: either yesterday or today they're gonna be put they're gonna
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Speaker 5: be filling that hole on their schedule. Uh for the
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Speaker 5: holiday weekend, We're we're absolutely thrilled about that.
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Speaker 3: But uh yeah, Thursday.
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Speaker 5: I mean we're about in a thousand if not more
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Speaker 5: when we started everything.
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Speaker 6: It's pretty crazy.
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Speaker 2: Of course, Melissa Ethreach, who you were just alluding to,
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Speaker 2: I mean, she's she's she's fresh in the headlines right now.
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Speaker 2: She has a movie that's going to be coming out
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Speaker 2: with christ and Stewart's going to be playing her I
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Speaker 2: believe in a biopic about about Melissa Ethridge and h
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Speaker 2: and then of course Manoona Judd is also going to
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Speaker 2: be there that night. Before we talk a little bit
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Speaker 2: more about that, I threw it through together or some music,
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Speaker 2: So I think anybody here is gonna have any problem
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Speaker 2: with Melissa Ethree Dana Judge. But just to wet your
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Speaker 2: whistle just a little bit, I'll put together a little
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Speaker 2: bit of music. So here is a little bit of
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Speaker 2: a compilation between Melissa Ethree, jen Wana Judge night one
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Speaker 2: of the regarded which will be Thursday night.
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Speaker 3: She is invited.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, she can come, Yeah, she can come on over.
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Speaker 3: Singing along with me. Here we got way.
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Speaker 2: Everybody knows this song, right, it's so funny this morning,
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Speaker 2: And of course our stations here locally have been adding
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Speaker 2: some of this music. But I was, as I was
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Speaker 2: putting together these reels this morning, I could hear our
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Speaker 2: country stations Who's firstar Counry ninety six one in the
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Speaker 2: background playing and they were actually playing this this morning.
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Speaker 6: Go imagine that.
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Speaker 5: So it was when one person in the building who
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Speaker 5: made sure a couple of extra songs were added to
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Speaker 5: the lineup for.
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Speaker 6: Oh that's good. All right, Yeah, that's good.
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Speaker 3: Just nobody knew but three people.
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Speaker 2: So of course Melissa Ethreege if you must know who
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Speaker 2: she is. But the huge songs come through my window.
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Speaker 2: I'm the only one I want to come over, bringing
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Speaker 2: some water, tons of hot number one songs that were
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Speaker 2: ripped off in the in the mid nineties. Just an
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Speaker 2: iconic artist. She's performed in Charleston a couple of times,
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Speaker 2: I think before the Clay Center. She's been here before.
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Speaker 2: So just a superstar that's going to be one part
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Speaker 2: of the opening night, you know.
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Speaker 5: And and I'm gonna tell you something, seriously, we can't
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Speaker 5: thank our sponsors enough because they have they've allowed this
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Speaker 5: to be a free event, and it costs a fortune
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Speaker 5: to book these artists. And we've actually been planning for
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Speaker 5: two years now, two years for this event because two
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Speaker 5: hundred and fiftieth I mean, I remember the conference call
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Speaker 5: I was. I was on a Sturmo boat in Augusta, Kentucky,
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Speaker 5: and I'm on a conference call, uh with Andy Richardson,
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Speaker 5: our president, Madame Mayer, and Matt Sutton and Jane Bostick,
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Speaker 5: and we were all talking about you know, we were
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Speaker 5: talking about security, the whole everything. But we were planning
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Speaker 5: on a there's gonna be elevated pricing. It is gonna
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Speaker 5: be July fourth on a Saturday in America, sooner fifties,
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Speaker 5: So you've got to plan all these different things. But
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Speaker 5: the cool part about Thursday night is they're both gonna
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Speaker 5: do seventy five minutes each. Seventy five minutes are gonna
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Speaker 5: do and that's it's typical. But you've got i mean,
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Speaker 5: dual headliners. So you'll know every song. Yeah, you'll know
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Speaker 5: every song, every single one of both of them. And
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Speaker 5: they're gonna sing together.
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Speaker 6: On some songs no way. Yeah, I didn't know that
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Speaker 6: was even a thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So they're gonna do renditions this of some of them.
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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, the the the people who are
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Speaker 5: religiously go to concerts and follow websites about playlists or
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Speaker 5: set lists for uh concerts, They're gonna get it. You'll
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Speaker 5: be able to get a heads up on maybe some
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Speaker 5: of the songs that are going to be singing together.
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Speaker 5: But it's also the fourth of July weekend, and so
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Speaker 5: that weekend usually artists pull songs out that they've not
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Speaker 5: done it a long time. You never know that somebody
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Speaker 5: else is, but still they paid tribute to them, and
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Speaker 5: it's it's this is gonna be so much fun.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be great. Well, I know, it's amazing. She's
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Speaker 2: been solo since nineteen ninety two. I was looking at
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Speaker 2: that a little bit. I mean, the Judds were such
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Speaker 2: a massive I mean just platinum hit after platinum hit
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Speaker 2: after platinum hit in the eighties and nineties, and I
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Speaker 2: was I was looking up.
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Speaker 6: I was like, when did she go solo? When was that?
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Speaker 2: For I'm getting to be very old, but I could
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Speaker 2: not believe it was in nineteen ninety two. I mean,
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Speaker 2: she she's basically been a solo artist for twice as
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Speaker 2: long as that she was a jid, Yeah exactly.
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Speaker 5: And of course her being from Ashland and such that,
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Speaker 5: you know, that helped a local connection.
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Speaker 6: But you know, I met her.
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Speaker 5: I've been her in nineteen ninety in the fall of
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Speaker 5: nineteen ninety seven, and she came to the studio in Lovewock, Texas.
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Speaker 6: And she was a that hair.
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Speaker 3: It is that red down to the roots. Sometimes you
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Speaker 3: let it go, but let me get it is that red.
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Speaker 2: Always felt like that she might have been or we
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Speaker 2: might have been an honorary part of her family. Because
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Speaker 2: my my family also has that red hair on my
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Speaker 2: mom's side that like like the Judds family looks like
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Speaker 2: my mom.
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna wear that.
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Speaker 2: Let's let's continue on. Let's uh, that's a blockbuster, just
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Speaker 2: getting it started all night night one. Talk a little
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Speaker 2: bit about night two, and I'll get us started with
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Speaker 2: the music this time around Montel Jordan.
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Speaker 5: Of course this is sound and everybody think by the way,
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Speaker 5: the announcement yesterday, everybody was singing alonger they knew their song.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, they know this song.
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Speaker 2: Now I'll admit that night number two on Friday, that's
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Speaker 2: gonna be Montell Jordan bow Wow and Bobby Brown. Bow
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Speaker 2: Wow was a little bit out of my demo. He's
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Speaker 2: a little bit. He's a little bit younger than what
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Speaker 2: I was. This is bow Wow here and this is
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Speaker 2: him as a kid. Right, he's older now he's older now, yeah,
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Speaker 2: this was little bow Wow.
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Speaker 3: Se so you folks you're older.
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Speaker 8: He was a kid.
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Speaker 5: He was like twelve, twelve or thirteen in this song, right,
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Speaker 5: and so he came out as little bow Wow and uh,
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Speaker 5: he's changed to bow Wow.
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Speaker 9: Now.
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Speaker 3: He looks really good in his photo by the way.
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Speaker 2: And then Bobby Brown's been to Charleston before. I saw
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Speaker 2: him and concert back in the eighties with LeVert and
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Speaker 2: uh it was the Karen Uh, I'll be your super Superwoman.
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Speaker 2: I can't remember Karen White.
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Speaker 6: I think her name was.
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Speaker 2: I saw him when he came to town. So this
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Speaker 2: is straight out of my teenage years. Other than bow Wow,
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Speaker 2: who was a little bit before me, but Montel Jordan
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Speaker 2: and Bobby Brown, this is straight when I was playing
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Speaker 2: basketball and football here in Kanall City growing up in
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Speaker 2: the eighties and nineties.
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Speaker 6: This is straight out of my child.
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Speaker 5: Sometimes you got to play to the those two Montel
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Speaker 5: and Bobby. They're playing to a younger crowd and so
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Speaker 5: they're trying to make sure that they bring a few.
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Speaker 6: Young kids in.
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Speaker 5: But uh, now this was I had a number of
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Speaker 5: text messages, text messages from some of my friends are like, oh,
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Speaker 5: it's this throwback. There's a great stuff I had won.
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Speaker 5: Adam Rodgers he goes, he goes my boy, Bobby.
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Speaker 3: Brown can't wait. I was like, he's your boy?
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Speaker 1: Is he?
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Speaker 5: But that that's so exciting and and uh and then
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Speaker 5: you know, we go, we go from Friday Night, we go.
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Speaker 5: We just had the ladies kick us off. The guys
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Speaker 5: are here on Friday night, and then we go to Saturday,
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Speaker 5: which Saturday, the slew of events is obsurd.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about that a little before we get to
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Speaker 2: the music. There's a lot of stuff going on Friday Saturday.
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Speaker 5: We've got the We've got the winder dog race that's
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Speaker 5: gonna happen, and that's gonna be down at Magic Island.
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Speaker 5: We're really excited about that, and we've got some folks
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Speaker 5: are stepping up to help sponsor that event. There is
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Speaker 5: the hot dog eating contests and that's gonna be down
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Speaker 5: at Hatted Riverfront Park.
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Speaker 6: We moved it.
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Speaker 5: We finally figured out that's the best place to have
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Speaker 5: it every year. And so gosh, oh my guys, I
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Speaker 5: can't with the guy from Nitro who won last year.
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Speaker 5: He's back, so we'll have him there. He's held me
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Speaker 5: out on stage last year. He could have eaten more.
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Speaker 5: He's disappointed in himself. So we'll see how that works
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Speaker 5: out because it was a tight one. So we had
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Speaker 5: a hot dog eating contest, and of course you know
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Speaker 5: the funeral parade, and matter of fact, I have a
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Speaker 5: meeting about that tomorrow. We're gonna finalize some of the
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Speaker 5: details on that, and we are really excited about that.
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Speaker 5: Marty Gracassino has stepped up and they said they said
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Speaker 5: last year, he said, we need to be back in
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Speaker 5: the swing of things, bigger and better, and so they're
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Speaker 5: going to help out and make sure that just Is
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Speaker 5: is top notch.
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Speaker 3: And people love that.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it's a time to cut it's it's when
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Speaker 5: you know, it's when the festival people go, we can
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Speaker 5: come out of the shadows and then either and it's
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Speaker 5: a it's a heck of a break that I you know,
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Speaker 5: it's a very short parade round. I mean, listen, we're
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Speaker 5: going two blocks on Capitol Street, give that, and then
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Speaker 5: we make the turn and we go back over to
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Speaker 5: s like Plaza. But the fun part about that is
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Speaker 5: it is jam packed on the sidewalks like it's a
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Speaker 5: Christmas parade at least for that block and a half
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Speaker 5: to two blocks.
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Speaker 3: And it's really cool. That's a mayor's favorite event.
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Speaker 5: And so she already has been working on her ideas
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Speaker 5: for because believe me, believe me she is she puts
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Speaker 5: a heck of a lot of effort into it.
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Speaker 6: But everybody does.
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Speaker 5: I mean, we had someone was carrying their relatives ashes
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Speaker 5: in the parade last year, and of course the the
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Speaker 5: Great Canal River Navy they helped step up and make
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Speaker 5: sure that that is has a good event with the band,
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Speaker 5: the Canon Navy River Band. So it's it's really exciting.
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Speaker 5: But you've got the uh you've got also, by the way,
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Speaker 5: the fire truck parade. Lots of cool, very cool. Always
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Speaker 5: cool to have the loudest parade too. Oh, it's so fun.
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Speaker 5: And then they start to hear the sirens, they're starting
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Speaker 5: to put their fingers in their ears, and then as
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Speaker 5: we get to the end of the event, at that
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Speaker 5: point they've just pulled them out.
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Speaker 6: So there's smiling. Yeah, yeah, they just want to hear it.
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Speaker 3: But it's just it's a great day to be downtown.
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Speaker 5: And we've got the kid Zone over it's going to
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Speaker 5: be over at Slack Plaza and that is all dedicated
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Speaker 5: to kids. I mean, you know, there's of course going
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Speaker 5: to be some things you can buy for food, whatever else.
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Speaker 5: And we've got the entrepreneurs market there.
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Speaker 6: Young kids.
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Speaker 5: I mean these kids who are anywhere from seven, eight
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Speaker 5: to ten twelve years old who are putting their products
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Speaker 5: out there that they've put together and it's amazing. We
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Speaker 5: were blown away the first two years ago when we
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Speaker 5: did it, and so that's that has been successful.
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Speaker 2: But Saturday is so Saturday is just huge. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's a it's a big but so many events going on.
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Speaker 2: I mean, just look at the calendar. You can get
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Speaker 2: to it. It's a Charlestons Stern what Charleston Regard dot
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Speaker 2: Charleston Regatta dot com. Go to Charleston Regatta dot com.
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Speaker 2: Just look at the calendar of events. I mean we're
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Speaker 2: talking about the music primarily, but the major events that
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Speaker 2: are going on, from wrestling, I mean wrestling, yeah, there's
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Speaker 2: that too, from from uh from US the Slack Slam,
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Speaker 2: all the way to uh UH to the to the
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Speaker 2: to the different parades and things that are going on.
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Speaker 6: It's just I mean, the city really does come alive.
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Speaker 5: They don't stop. Yeah, and and and when I say
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Speaker 5: don't stop, they let's just go ahead and say it.
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Speaker 5: These the city employees, over seven hundred and fifty employees
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Speaker 5: within the City of Charleston, they step up. You know,
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Speaker 5: when we first started, I was you know, I felt
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Speaker 5: bad about the whole July fourth thing. I mean, you're
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Speaker 5: changing lives and families, plans everything else. But there are
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Speaker 5: a lot of those guys who said, now we want this,
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Speaker 5: we want to come back after you're one, we still
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Speaker 5: want to do it. And you know, we're going into
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Speaker 5: the fifth year now, and there guys people have now
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Speaker 5: after the first probably about three years, year four and.
16:06
Speaker 3: Now going new year five, have changed their family vacations.
16:09
Speaker 10: Right.
16:10
Speaker 5: Even the people that would go to down to West
16:12
Speaker 5: Virginia's beach down there, Myrtle Beach, they've I've had a
16:15
Speaker 5: number of people say we still go, we just don't
16:18
Speaker 5: go on regatta weekend now.
16:19
Speaker 2: Talking about the regard of the big announcement yesterday with
16:22
Speaker 2: Brian Hughes a couple more nights that we're going to
16:23
Speaker 2: get to the end of Saturday, and we were talking
16:25
Speaker 2: about the events taking place on Saturday, which there's tons
16:27
Speaker 2: of them. Again, go to the website and check it out.
16:29
Speaker 2: There's so much going on. But I was a little bit,
16:32
Speaker 2: uh my wife didn't know who lead Afford was. She's
16:34
Speaker 2: a little younger than me. I listen, I'm in the
16:37
Speaker 2: same boat, and I had to. I tried to sing
16:39
Speaker 2: the Ozzie lead a song tour. I got all the
16:41
Speaker 2: lyrics wrong, so I sang this one too, or I
16:43
Speaker 2: got this one right, and so she still didn't recognize it.
16:49
Speaker 3: Yes, I know that I needed that song.
16:56
Speaker 2: And of course also on Saturday night, no introduction of
16:59
Speaker 2: me at here A fabulously nice man. I've talked to
17:02
Speaker 2: Brett Michael's a few times. Fabulously nice guy. Of course,
17:11
Speaker 2: Brett Michael's formerly singer of Poison. My understanding is he
17:15
Speaker 2: he did uh Morgantown I think last year and in
17:18
Speaker 2: the Ruby concert. And my understanding is he does. He
17:21
Speaker 2: has a solo career. He does some of his solo stuff,
17:23
Speaker 2: but he does he does all the hits too. Yeah,
17:25
Speaker 2: and so you're I mean, that's a night that I
17:27
Speaker 2: could go and sing every song. Yet again, let's be honest.
17:29
Speaker 2: I thought Poison when I was a kid. I heard
17:32
Speaker 2: the voices. I was like, those are men. And then
17:34
Speaker 2: you looked at the promo photos in their album. You
17:36
Speaker 2: are we sure that what's going on here.
17:39
Speaker 6: I'm a little older than you. I knew what was
17:40
Speaker 6: going the hair metal times or something else. Man, that
17:45
Speaker 6: was something else.
17:45
Speaker 3: Oh, I gotta tell you.
17:47
Speaker 5: And by the way, Tony the Taylor said to me
17:50
Speaker 5: in a text, message, he goes, dude, Brett Michael's nicest man.
17:54
Speaker 3: Seriously you'll ever meet.
17:55
Speaker 2: Just just just a gentleman man. I talked to him
17:58
Speaker 2: for about ten minutes off line. He was reviewing more
18:00
Speaker 2: on the hotline before. Just seriously a nice guy. I
18:03
Speaker 2: was floored by how nice he was.
18:04
Speaker 5: Well, and you couple that with the fact that Tony
18:08
Speaker 5: said straight up he's better as a solo artist than
18:11
Speaker 5: he was with Poison as a band.
18:12
Speaker 3: So and he's going to play all every single one.
18:14
Speaker 3: You might have been the only actual musician.
18:17
Speaker 6: I'm not sure.
18:19
Speaker 2: There's a little there was a there was a lot
18:20
Speaker 2: about m Major back now, I mean that's not fully true,
18:23
Speaker 2: but Brett Michaels is a talented musician. So I'm looking
18:26
Speaker 2: forward to that. And then Sunday, of course, tons of
18:28
Speaker 2: events that's going to be taking place on Sunday as
18:30
Speaker 2: well as we kind of wrap up the week, all
18:32
Speaker 2: kinds of things going on, and there's music. There's music
18:35
Speaker 2: Sunday night as well. But just again, we're putting kind
18:38
Speaker 2: of a bow on this thing, and it's just going
18:39
Speaker 2: to be the end to a great week.
18:40
Speaker 3: It is everything. W Thomas has stepped up to help
18:43
Speaker 3: us through the drum show.
18:44
Speaker 5: Drune shows are very expensive and so so we we
18:50
Speaker 5: and the closer they are to a holiday, they get
18:52
Speaker 5: more expensive. So the good part is Thomas just stepped
18:56
Speaker 5: up and said, we'll help take care of this. So
18:58
Speaker 5: that's going to be happening. That's going to be that.
19:00
Speaker 5: But it's you need to pay attention what happens in
19:02
Speaker 5: the morning. We have a car show that is going
19:05
Speaker 5: to be on the boulevard. And I listen, five thousand
19:07
Speaker 5: comments i've ever heard have been, where's a rod running?
19:10
Speaker 6: Dow up everything?
19:12
Speaker 5: Everything happened where the organization there said, our members are
19:16
Speaker 5: just not we're slowly dying off, and so we want
19:18
Speaker 5: to watch that run right into the sunset.
19:20
Speaker 3: And so we have constantly tried to find a way
19:22
Speaker 3: to get the cars down to the boulevard.
19:25
Speaker 5: So it is a herculean effort that happens as soon
19:28
Speaker 5: as Brett Michael steps off stage. I'm not kidding you.
19:32
Speaker 5: You're gonna see the stage starting to break down immediately.
19:34
Speaker 5: Wow it and it happens overnight and so the the
19:38
Speaker 5: you know, the union workers here are awesome, we love them.
19:42
Speaker 5: And next thing you know, they break that down and
19:44
Speaker 5: by the last sweeper that goes through at about seven
19:47
Speaker 5: o'clock in the morning. Then those cars start to roll
19:49
Speaker 5: in and so we set that part so where the
19:51
Speaker 5: stage was is where a car show happens. And then
19:54
Speaker 5: we go into the one o'clock time period, so that
19:56
Speaker 5: wraps up around noon ish. I mean, the cars is
19:59
Speaker 5: going to be for a while, but then we go
20:01
Speaker 5: to one o'clock and it's signed for the let me
20:03
Speaker 5: back up noon. You've got the United Way duck drop
20:06
Speaker 5: off the bridge and then at what o'clock is the
20:10
Speaker 5: Charleston Sermo Boat Races. And so I'm president of the
20:13
Speaker 5: American stern Wall Association and we are absolutely thrilled to
20:17
Speaker 5: do it. Some of us do it for sports, fun, fun,
20:21
Speaker 5: you know, we wait not you know that's really and
20:24
Speaker 5: then there are others who who just want to ruin
20:26
Speaker 5: your day. And right right, yeah, that's your friend who said,
20:29
Speaker 5: I'm not going to run it hard. Our friend Jim Krantz,
20:32
Speaker 5: I will only run at eight hundred rpm. You know,
20:35
Speaker 5: he's doing eleven hundred rpm down the river and I
20:37
Speaker 5: can't catch up. So but but it is the Stirmo
20:41
Speaker 5: boat races are are They are fun for us? You know,
20:43
Speaker 5: we get we get to do what we don't get
20:46
Speaker 5: to do every day, and as we collectively tear the
20:48
Speaker 5: river apart. So that is that's actually why we had
20:52
Speaker 5: the boats we suggest come off the floating dock because
20:55
Speaker 5: we are going to we can destroy a plastic boat
20:57
Speaker 5: with a collective washing out. Yeah, it's just it's a
21:03
Speaker 5: nature of the beast. But people love to watch all
21:06
Speaker 5: these boats going down the river. And we've got the
21:08
Speaker 5: rufous b two, Lou Window Marine Sails, Saint Albans, Love Lou, Mike, Linda,
21:15
Speaker 5: the Gary, the whole whole team, uh, Tom two, everybody
21:19
Speaker 5: else in the shop. Those the rufous Bee two turns
21:22
Speaker 5: one hundred years old this year and he's got fancy
21:25
Speaker 5: stuff made up for it, so that's going to be exciting.
21:28
Speaker 5: And then the miss Sterling Miss Sterling. That between those
21:31
Speaker 5: two boats you're going to see the river rocking. So
21:34
Speaker 5: the miss Sterling has had an overhaul after the Regotdas
21:38
Speaker 5: season in September last year, it went to dock up
21:41
Speaker 5: in up in north north northern Ohio. It's up the
21:45
Speaker 5: near Sistersville and so it went to get work done there. Decks,
21:49
Speaker 5: read on everything else. So both of these boats are
21:52
Speaker 5: shined up for their one hundred year anniversary, on America's
21:55
Speaker 5: two hundred fiftieth and the fifth year anniversary of the regatta.
21:58
Speaker 6: That's incredible, man, this is gonna be just a story.
22:00
Speaker 3: I don't know how the stars lined up like that.
22:01
Speaker 6: Oh, by the way, we have some bands, Yeah, yeah,
22:03
Speaker 6: I guess I bet.
22:03
Speaker 2: Now I gotta tell just a brief, a brief story
22:06
Speaker 2: here with these two bands, specifically Vertical Horizon and Tonic.
22:10
Speaker 2: There's certain things in my life. The names Breton Brent
22:12
Speaker 2: come to mind that I can never get straight. Like
22:14
Speaker 2: if you come to me and your name is Brent,
22:16
Speaker 2: I'm gonna call you Brett the rest of the rest
22:17
Speaker 2: of my life. It's just the way I am. I
22:19
Speaker 2: get the I just I just confuse those things. These
22:22
Speaker 2: two bands are bands that I've been that with my
22:24
Speaker 2: whole life. Specifically, these two songs, so Vertical Horizon and
22:27
Speaker 2: Tonic are going to be here on Sunday. Maybe you're saying,
22:30
Speaker 2: I know those bands, but where from?
22:32
Speaker 6: Trust me?
22:32
Speaker 11: You know?
22:38
Speaker 3: Yep, gees everything.
22:42
Speaker 2: Now, I get it.
22:44
Speaker 6: Vertical Horizon, not Tonic. Tonic is coming up the exactly
22:55
Speaker 6: everybody knows.
22:55
Speaker 12: I don't.
22:56
Speaker 6: I don't just.
22:58
Speaker 2: Don't know.
23:00
Speaker 6: Oh yeah. And then of course.
23:04
Speaker 1: Fugit on the Sea.
23:10
Speaker 6: Everybody knows these songs, right yeah. Boat Party, ah yeah,
23:16
Speaker 6: boat Party of Fris House. There we go, it'll be
23:18
Speaker 6: down there. That's good stuff.
23:20
Speaker 2: So again that is Vertical Rising and Tonic of course,
23:22
Speaker 2: those huge songs from the nineties. Vertical Rison is an
23:25
Speaker 2: East Coast alternative rock band. Tonic is a West Coast
23:27
Speaker 2: alternative rock band. But I have always got him confused.
23:29
Speaker 5: Here's what's here's what happens with these alt rock bands.
23:32
Speaker 5: You get people that are starting to show up that
23:35
Speaker 5: you're like, who are these people? There're gonna be people
23:37
Speaker 5: from New York, be sure, from down to Alabama. They
23:41
Speaker 5: these alt rock people travel to these shows. I mean
23:43
Speaker 5: there's a free one, huh. Next level. So that's that's
23:47
Speaker 5: gonna be one of those days where the local crowd
23:49
Speaker 5: will still be here and we will enjoy a nice
23:52
Speaker 5: evening because we moved that all down to the Headed
23:54
Speaker 5: riverfron Park, right and it becomes a more intimate setting
23:56
Speaker 5: on Sunday because you're slowly winding things down. But this
24:00
Speaker 5: alt rock stuff brings in tourists. I mean they'll they'll
24:03
Speaker 5: be here for the day and then they'll just slowly
24:06
Speaker 5: leave on Monday or maybe who knows, maybe one or
24:08
Speaker 5: two to say. But that's that's what's fun about that.
24:11
Speaker 5: And as I told you off here, yes I didn't.
24:14
Speaker 5: It was not my day yesterday. I did not know
24:16
Speaker 5: who this Woothy artists were for until I stepped up
24:20
Speaker 5: and saw it. I'm gonna we saw the script in
24:21
Speaker 5: front of me and I was like.
24:22
Speaker 6: Okay, there we go.
24:23
Speaker 2: That's good stuff, man. So a fantastic regatta. It's coming
24:26
Speaker 2: up over the fourth of July weekend to celebrate America's birthday,
24:30
Speaker 2: to celebrate West Virginia, to celebrate some of these great
24:32
Speaker 2: bands that are coming through. So just head on over
24:34
Speaker 2: to the website. If you have any questions about that
24:36
Speaker 2: at all. It's uh Charleston Regatta dot com. Charleston Redotta
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24:41
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24:44
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Speaker 6: There good so we're doing. I appreciate it. Brian, thanks
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Speaker 3: Hey, you're more than welcome. By the way, we have
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Speaker 9: Oh, hello, good morning. And you know early voting begins
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Speaker 9: tex calendar tomorrow. Oh so a lot going on with
30:27
Speaker 9: you know, what typically would be a mid term primary election.
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Speaker 9: Wes Virginia continues to be a very Trump different state.
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Speaker 9: He is not at the top of the ballot this year,
30:37
Speaker 9: but that has not stopped a lot of spending, a
30:40
Speaker 9: lot of activity, particularly in state Senate and State House
30:47
Speaker 9: of Delegates races. You know, hopefully, hopefully Democrats are not
30:53
Speaker 9: listening if you are set your thoughts aside. The political
30:58
Speaker 9: competition at this moment moment is within the Republican Party
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Speaker 9: itself in West Virginia, and that has taken a shape
31:06
Speaker 9: that I don't think I've ever seen. I mean, just
31:09
Speaker 9: really incredible third party spending in this you know primary,
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Speaker 9: it is an off year. You know, you're not seeing
31:18
Speaker 9: the president or the governor at the top of the ticket.
31:21
Speaker 9: So just incredible spending, but also real divide I mean
31:26
Speaker 9: factions in the Republican Party with the governor having a
31:32
Speaker 9: seemingly favored slate of candidates, Governor Patrick Morrissey making no
31:35
Speaker 9: bones about it, I mean hitting the road and endorsing
31:38
Speaker 9: Republicans against other Republicans, political action committees associated with Governor
31:44
Speaker 9: Morrissey doing heavy spending both for and against candidates. And
31:49
Speaker 9: then you know, on the other side, loosely is a
31:54
Speaker 9: different alignment of candidates. Senator Capito, who will be on
31:57
Speaker 9: the ballot running for election, has you know, sort of
32:03
Speaker 9: a little more quietly but but done endorsements herself of
32:07
Speaker 9: a lot of the Senate, State Senate, and House of
32:11
Speaker 9: Delegates candidates. Really on the opposite side of the Morrissey line,
32:16
Speaker 9: you know, standing with those candidates that she favors being
32:21
Speaker 9: on video on Facebook or Twitter or wherever, uh with
32:26
Speaker 9: with video conversations that can be shared. And so you know,
32:32
Speaker 9: that kind of split within the Republican Party itself with
32:37
Speaker 9: sort of Kem Morrissey on one side and Team Capito
32:40
Speaker 9: on the other. I think, you know, pretty intriguing. And
32:44
Speaker 9: some of those canal races are are right there in
32:47
Speaker 9: the mix.
32:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, and talk about that just a little bit. I
32:50
Speaker 2: was looking into this and following your reporting on it,
32:53
Speaker 2: and there is some things and I just want to
32:55
Speaker 2: present this non judgmental, but just some facts that have
32:59
Speaker 2: been on earth. I believe that the governors has a
33:03
Speaker 2: pack that he's associated with, the Sugar Maple pack. That
33:08
Speaker 2: thing has raised over half a million dollars so far.
33:11
Speaker 2: And it's interesting because less than eight percent of the
33:13
Speaker 2: contributions that that thing has that that thing is raised,
33:16
Speaker 2: so nearly half a million dollars has come within the
33:18
Speaker 2: state of West Virginia, so it's most of it that
33:20
Speaker 2: that it's coming outside of that state, and with relatively
33:24
Speaker 2: large donations as well. I think the average donation is
33:26
Speaker 2: about twenty five thousand dollars, so These are definitely people
33:29
Speaker 2: that are alongside of the governor's political ambitions and his views,
33:35
Speaker 2: but not necessarily those within the state that that are
33:39
Speaker 2: that are that are funding it. These are primarily coming
33:41
Speaker 2: from outside the state.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, several hedge fund managers right at the top of
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Speaker 9: the giving chain for Sugar Maple Pack. One is Jeff
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Speaker 9: Yass who is leader of a hedge fund in his
33:59
Speaker 9: residency and Sylvania. He's a mega downer to Republican and
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Speaker 9: libertarian causes, mostly on school choice issues highly motivated by
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Speaker 9: increased flexibility like school bouchers and stuff. Another hedge fund
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Speaker 9: manager Thomas W. Winstin Wwinston of New York City, who
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Speaker 9: is chairman of the board of trustees of the Fairmount Institute,
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Speaker 9: conservative think tank. Another hundred thousand dollars from him. Sean
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Speaker 9: Feiler of Stanford, Connecticut fifty thousand dollars from him one
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Speaker 9: hundred thousand dollars to Sugar Maple Pack from an entity
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Speaker 9: called Yes Dot Every Dot Kid. That is an organization
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Speaker 9: intending setting out to transform K through twelve education in
34:52
Speaker 9: America through a family first approach. So really a common
34:55
Speaker 9: theme of ultra rich folks and their common interest in
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Speaker 9: you know, school choice stuff, whether it's charter schools or
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Speaker 9: the kind of education vultures that in West Virginia are
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Speaker 9: presented through the Hope Scholarship. What I think is interesting is,
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Speaker 9: you know, if you're getting those flyers sent to your home, uh,
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Speaker 9: they don't really mention much about school choice or the
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Speaker 9: Hope Scholarship for preserving it or anything else. The theme
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Speaker 9: that I see in the in the flyers across my
35:28
Speaker 9: I are, you know, these issues of transgender lifestyles and
35:35
Speaker 9: illegal immigrants and the crackdown on on illegal immigrants. It's
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Speaker 9: I mean, it's it's very red meat flyers that are
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Speaker 9: being distributed, Whereas it really looks like these high profile
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Speaker 9: donors are are interested in this issue of school choice.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is an interesting thing to think about. Where
35:55
Speaker 2: the top donors if you talk about Gas and Clintonstein,
35:59
Speaker 2: the cock that the Koch Foundation, who also is a
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Speaker 2: huge donor to this pack, and another hedge fund manager
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Speaker 2: out of Connecticut.
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Speaker 6: Pretty much all of these.
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Speaker 2: These main funders are all usually into school choice and
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Speaker 2: religious issues, but the flyers are all like immigration and
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Speaker 2: different things along those lines. I guess it's I guess
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Speaker 2: it depends on what gets the attention of the voters.
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Speaker 9: I mean, it is a primary election, it's it's off year.
36:27
Speaker 9: So which you're thinking, I think, is that the most motivated,
36:32
Speaker 9: you know, most conservative people will be the ones to
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Speaker 9: come out to vote. The calculation seems to be that
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Speaker 9: the you know, the issues that you see on the
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Speaker 9: flyers are the ones that are going to motivate these
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Speaker 9: folks to come out and do the voting, you know,
36:47
Speaker 9: on the school choice issue. Honestly, the legislative session this year,
36:51
Speaker 9: there was discussion of the Hope Scholarship, but nothing happened
36:57
Speaker 9: except that it expanded this year, as it was already
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Speaker 9: intended to do so the first time, to all non
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Speaker 9: public school families. So it did an enormous expansion for people.
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Speaker 9: And then there were some discussions, particularly in the House
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Speaker 9: Finance Committee, of narrowing it down, narrowing down the guidelines
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Speaker 9: in some way, but that didn't happen. It never even
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Speaker 9: went to a committee vote. The only thing that came
37:26
Speaker 9: out of that discussion at all was making payments to
37:30
Speaker 9: families quarterly instead of twice a year. I mean, so
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Speaker 9: that's that's nothing to get your heart racing over. But
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Speaker 9: whatever has happened, you know, the governor and the political
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Speaker 9: action committees associated with his area of wesperchinir Republican politics
37:53
Speaker 9: have been highly motivated, very active, and it seems like,
37:57
Speaker 9: you know, some of the folks that they are going
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Speaker 9: after have been on you know, just the other side,
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Speaker 9: not even really doing anything, but the other side of
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Speaker 9: the school choice debate.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, like Finance Finance Chair Vernon Chris and vice chair
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Speaker 2: Clay Rally just suggested maybe some limits that didn't even
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Speaker 2: get past. But there they're targets going about this. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: David just were talking about it, right, and they are
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Speaker 2: targets of this. Following Brad mc laney's reporting, we were
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Speaker 2: talking about the Sugar Maple, but also Americans for Prosperity,
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Speaker 2: School Freedom Fund, Make Liberty Win Mountaineer Conservative Action about
38:33
Speaker 2: one point six million dollars in Westervirginia legislative late races
38:37
Speaker 2: all the way down to I mean the state level,
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Speaker 2: I mean in Conall County.
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Speaker 6: There has been a.
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Speaker 2: Fund nearly forty thousand dollars that's been putting into into
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Speaker 2: a candidate. From this fund, one of the governors preferred
38:49
Speaker 2: in a county race forty thousand dollars in a county
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Speaker 2: race for one of the governor's preferred choices. Well, whatever
38:55
Speaker 2: that means, just presenting the information for you. But it
38:57
Speaker 2: is interesting because that's not something I think. Mitch Carmichael
38:59
Speaker 2: had a quote about this, and he's been around the
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Speaker 2: government Leviathan a lot. He said, very unique as far
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Speaker 2: as he's as far as he's concerned, never say anything
39:08
Speaker 2: like this before.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, so I've written a bit about this.
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Speaker 9: I focused on you know this, this the spending by
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Speaker 9: this pack that's really directly associated with the governor. A
39:21
Speaker 9: friend of the program, Stephen Allen Adams of the Augen Newspapers,
39:24
Speaker 9: had a broader piece and then a follow up commentary
39:28
Speaker 9: within the past few days. So if if you're listening
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Speaker 9: out there and you navigate to Stephen's Twitter feed or
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Speaker 9: any of the Augen newspapers like the Parkersburg Use, the Sentinel,
39:39
Speaker 9: or the Wheeling Intelligencer, those articles are are there. The
39:44
Speaker 9: main piece was a broad look at just all of
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Speaker 9: the enormous spending by a set of political action committees.
39:53
Speaker 9: And then today Amelia Nicely, another friend of the program
39:56
Speaker 9: from West Virginia Watch, has a perspective piece on all
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Speaker 9: of the spending with quotes and takes from a lot
40:04
Speaker 9: of West Virginia political figures, all saying, like Mitch Carmichael
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Speaker 9: that this is, you know, really unprecedented spending and unprecedented
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Speaker 9: divisiveness within West Virginia's dominant political party.
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Speaker 2: Interesting stuff. So followed along wv Metronews dot com. Other
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40:37
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Speaker 9: Yeah, And so you know, my big takeaway and I'm
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Speaker 9: keep up the property. And so they said, you know,
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Speaker 9: we need a third party caretaker to be named, you know,
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Speaker 9: you know, they moved very swiftly, struck like lightning. And
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Speaker 9: the justices have you know, made their own filings, have
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Speaker 9: run a gym justice playbook, which which I have been
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Speaker 9: subject to maybe four or five times over the years,
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Speaker 9: one of the plays will be slow it down. And
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Speaker 9: that is the phase that we appear to be in
46:58
Speaker 9: now because both sides, the lawyers for the Omni owners
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Speaker 9: the judge to not go ahead with the hearing that
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Speaker 9: he had set for whatever the date was, May eleventh,
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Speaker 9: and instead to hold off that The judge agreed to
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Speaker 9: that and delayed by about a month. As a side note,
47:28
Speaker 9: it's a little bit of a relief to me. The
47:30
Speaker 9: hearing was going to happen day after Mother's Day and
47:33
Speaker 9: day before election day, and I got things going on.
47:37
Speaker 9: I do think it will be a hot news item,
47:41
Speaker 9: but I got other things at that point. So it
47:43
Speaker 9: helps with my personal schedule for it to be in
47:47
Speaker 9: June instead.
47:47
Speaker 6: But my other.
47:49
Speaker 9: Takeaway is, all right, this is the cooling saucer, and
47:53
Speaker 9: who knows what will happen next. I mean, I can't
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47:58
Speaker 9: seemed like an emergency when Jim Justice has said, you know,
48:04
Speaker 9: it'll all be all right, and and you think, Bory,
48:07
Speaker 9: how's he going to pull a rabbit out of this hat? Well,
48:10
Speaker 9: you know, here we are pipity hop. There's a there's
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Speaker 9: a month cooling off period, and it appeared dire.
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Speaker 2: But we'll just see that's uh And there's more to
48:19
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